Jimmy Smith single-handedly took the lumbering electric organ out of the realms of bible-thumping and chapels of rest, stuck a cold beer on the lid…
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Jimmy Webb’s debut album Words and Music (1970) was a formative exercise in multi-tracking and overdubbing, with almost every sound on the LP made by…
If it wasn’t for the fact that this American group were signed to George Harrison’s Dark Horse label (the band were friends of his girlfriend…
John Weldon Cale was born on 5 December 1938, in Oklahoma City. Raised in Tulsa, he served in the US Air Force, then, in the…
Aussie band Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons could almost have been Graham Parker and the Rumour under another name. They also sounded like Elvis…
Singer/guitarist/songwriter Joan Armatrading was born in St Kitts in the West Indies on 9 December 1950. Her father was a fireman and carpenter who played bass…
After playing to coffee houses around Boston in the late 1950s, Joan Baez got her big break when she appeared at the 1959 folk festival…
There are many female musicians, but few genuine female rockers. Joan Jett bucked this trend and pursued straight-ahead rock and roll at a time when…
JoBoxers comprised English-based, expatriate American singer Dig Wayne, backed by the Bristol-based quartet of Rob Marche (guitar), Dave Collard (keyboards), Chris Bostock (bass), and Sean…
Signed to Elektra largely as thanks to manager Jerry Brandt for bringing Carly Simon to the label, ex-Hair actor Jobriath Boone (real name Bruce Campbell, born…
Joe Brown was born on 13 May 1941 in Swarby, Lincolnshire, but his family relocated to Plaistow in London when he was just two-years-old to…
The ex-gas fitter from Sheffield, Yorkshire, reached the British Top 30 in 1968 with his record Marjorine. Six months later he recorded The Beatles’ With A Little Help…
Born in August 1955, Midlander Joe Jackson was a music college graduate (he studied piano at London’s Royal College of Music) and cabaret arranger before…
Acclaimed by many as the UK’s Phil Spector, Joe Meek was born on 5 April 1929. His first love from childhood had been electronics, and this…
Joe South was born Joseph Souter on 28 February 1940 and given a guitar by his father at the age of 11. He built a…
John Mellencamp grew up in Seymour, Indiana. By seventeen he was married, and at nineteen he was a father, pouring concrete for a living and…
John Barry first formed the group in Yorkshire in 1957, after he completed his military service in the British Army. While playing at the Rialto…
The son of a US Air Force pilot, John Denver was born Henry John Deutschendorf on 31 December 1943 and raised all over the US…
John Peter Farnham was born in Dagenham, East London, on 1 July 1949 and moved to Melbourne (Australia) with his family in 1959. At the…
Over a career spanning more than five decades, beginning in the early 1970s as a staff songwriter in Nashville, John Hiatt has effortlessly moved across…